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2	[[caption-width-right:350:And then later, [[MoodWhiplash he beats the crap out of Kirk]].]]
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4	'''Original air date:''' March 2, 1967
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6	AKA "The One Where Spock [[Recap/FuturamaS4E11WhereNoFanHasGoneBefore Got High On Spores And Smacked Kirk Around]]". Also, Kirk mispronounces 'sabotage'.
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8	The ''Enterprise'' arrives in orbit of Omicron Ceti III, planning to recover the bodies and record the destruction no doubt left by the deadly, flesh-destroying Berthold rays. The Trio, plus Sulu, [=DeSalle=], and Kilowitz, beam down to find, surprise! Everyone is alive and well. A little ''too'' alive and well. A quick check up by Bones shows the leader of the colony is healthier than he was when he left Earth. Apparently, Elias has been taking appendix growing lessons from [[Series/RedDwarf David Lister]]. Oh, and yet another blonde bombshell is head over heels for Spock.
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10	There are unusual things about this farm. On this farm they have no animals, e-i-e-i-o. With no chick-chick here, no moo moo there, not an oink, not a baa, nowhere a quack quack. And Kirk is so disappointed there's no horsies to ride! Well, he can always look at all the hoes...that the men are using to tend the fields with. According to [=DeSalle=], they have grown just enough to sustain themselves.
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12	Leila talks Spock into going flower picking with her. She shows him one particular flower. [[Music/EricClapton Leila, She's got Spock on his knees, Leila.]] Then he tells her [[WhamLine "I love you."]]
13	!!These Tropes of Paradise:
14	* AlluringFlowers: The landing party visits a colonized planet where everyone seems incredibly happy and peaceful. The reason becomes apparent when Spock is sprayed with spores from an alien flower and he starts planning for the entire crew to come down and join the colonists.
15	* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: Subverted. Kirk does eventually succumb to the spores, but he then experiences a strong surge of anger on [[ReminderOfDuty seeing some of his medals]], snapping him out of it.
16	* ArtisticLicenseSpace: Subverted for once. The ''Enterprise'' should indeed be able to remain in orbit for a minimum of a few months, assuming no drastic outside influences such as contact with an asteroid or tractor beams from the planet's surface.
17	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Spock becomes angry after Kirk enrages him. Kirk does this to break Spock away from the spores' control.
18	* BlingOfWar: Kirk has some that he looks at while he's packing. It snaps him out of the spores' influence.
19	* BluntYes: Kirk warns a red shirt lined up to beam down against orders that what he's doing is mutiny. "Yes, sir. It is," the crewman calmly replies.
20	* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Spock breaks up with Leila, causing an emotional reaction in her to overcome the influence of the spores.
21	* CallBack: In [[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf “What Are Little Girls Made Of,”]] Spock mentions that he was offended by Kirk’s use of the term “half-breed.” Kirk replies, “I'll remember that Mister Spock, the next time I find myself in a similar situation.” In this episode, when Kirk needs to anger Spock, he uses the same term.
22	* ChekhovsGun: When Kirk finds that Uhura shorted out the long-range communications under the spores' influence, he throws the plant responsible across the bridge. This is the one that infects him while sitting at the helmsman station.
23	* CrapsaccharineWorld: The Omicron Ceti III colony. No illness, no violence, perfect health-- and no progress, and in a colony of healthy, happy adults there are ''no children at all.''
24	* CurbStompBattle: Kirk gets his ass handed to him by Spock, only surviving because Spock shook off the spores.
25	--> '''Kirk:''' Anyhow, I don't know what you're so mad about. It isn't every first officer that gets to belt his captain... several times.
26	* DeadpanSnarker: Bones gets a couple. Of the living and walking Elias, Bones says that it's his professional opinion that this man is alive. Later, when Elias walks off after stating he will not cooperate with any evacuation, Bones asks the captain if he would like to use a butterfly net on the colonists' leader. When Elias tells him they don't need a doctor, Bones responds "Oh, no? Would you like to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?"
27	* DeathWorld: Omicron Ceti III ''should'' be one of these thanks to the Berthold radiation... so [[DrivingQuestion why are the colonists still alive?]]
28	* DownerBeginning: The ''Enterprise'' shows up at the start of the episode expecting a planetful of dead colonists.
29	* DramaticDownstageTurn: Appears in a conversation between Leila and Spock near the end of the episode.
30	* DramaticIrony: Sulu comments that he knows so little about farms that he wouldn't know if anything was wrong if it were just two feet away from him. Just two feet away from him are the spore-producing flowers.
31	* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Something was in the air that made an irradiated planet inhabitable, but made everyone happy and wanting to stay forever- except Captain Kirk.
32	* TheFinalTemptation: The spores make people happy, at the cost of giving up any ambition to accomplish anything beyond personal comfort.
33	* FisticuffProvokingComment: Kirk intentionally delivers a series of vicious insults to Spock in order to anger him enough to fight off the influence of pacifying plant spores. Spock manages to hold out until Kirk says he belongs in a circus, "right next to the dog-faced boy". CurbStompBattle ensues.
34	* {{Foreshadowing}}: During Kirk's attempt at YourMom (see below), Spock retorts that his father was an ambassador. We later meet his father, Ambassador Sarek, in "Journey to Babel."
35	* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In a pretty standard Trek move; a planet where you can send people to restore them to perfect health (including regrowing internal organs) is never considered as a potential solution to future health based problems. In fact it bears a striking resemblance to the effect of the later "metaphasic radiation" in ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''.
36	* GaussianGirl: When Leila shows up, the camera lens is suddenly smeared in Vaseline, there's a light behind her to highlight her hair, and the romantic flutes start playing.
37	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Kirk {{invoked}} this, insulting Spock's parentage [[IShallTauntYou to anger him]] so that he would snap out of the spores' influence.
38	* HelpingAnotherSaveFace: After Kirk deliberately provokes Spock to anger to kill the alien spores manipulating him, Spock says that striking a fellow officer is a court martial offense. It's clear Spock is embarrassed by his emotional behavior, no matter how involuntary. Kirk reasons, logically as Spock notes, that if they're both in the brig, no one can build the device needed to free the rest of the crew.
39	* IAmWhatIAm: Spock tells Leila "I am what I am, Leila. And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else's."
40	* KirkSummation:
41	** "Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is."
42	** At the end, with a whole bunch of cliches too, the page quote for NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction. Spock points out that such poetic talk is 'non-regulation.' What else is new?
43	* LargeHam: "I... can't... LEAVE!"
44	* LawfulStupid: Invoked and {{averted}} during Kirk and Spock's discussion after their fight.
45	-->'''Spock''': Captain... striking a fellow officer is a Court Martial offense.\
46	'''Kirk''': Well... if we're both in the brig, who's going to build the device?\
47	'''Spock''': ...Quite logical, Captain.
48	* LoudOfWar: Kirk and Spock purge the colonists and the crew from the spore influence with a very irritating ultrasonic signal transmitted over the communicators.
49	* TheMutiny: They freely (so to speak, since they're under the influence of the spores) admit to it.
50	* NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction: Kirk and [=McCoy=] provide the page quote. And when Elias has shaken off the spores' influence just after [=McCoy=] does, he mournfully realizes that "We've done nothing here... no accomplishments, no progress..."
51	* OnlySaneMan: For two-thirds of the episode, Kirk is the only one not under the influence of the spores.
52	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Spock's flippancy concerns Kirk, then the spores soon make everyone act OOC. Even the reliably cranky Bones becomes an easygoing good ol' boy (with thick Georgia drawl to boot).
53	* PreAssKickingOneLiner: From ''[[ActualPacifist Bones]]'', of all people. Following his "Oh, no? Would you like to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?" he dodges Sandoval's sole punch, knocking the other man to the dirt with a single blow of his own. He doesn't even drop his mint julep!
54	* ProductPlacement: Kirk's suitcase is a Samsonite™, a luggage so durable it can take a beating from a grown Mugato!
55	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kirk has to deal a vicious one to Spock in order to piss him off enough to get over the spores' influence. An unusual case in that he didn't actually mean it.
56	* RecycledSoundtrack: Gerald Fried's score from "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E15ShoreLeave Shore Leave]]" is heavily featured in this episode, most notably the "Ruth theme", successfully accompanying the lost love between Spock and Leila.
57	* ReminderOfDuty: Kirk throws off the spores' influence after looking at his medals and realizing that he can't walk away from his responsibilities.
58	* SendInTheSearchTeam: How the episode started.
59	* SettlingTheFrontier: The ''Enterprise'' on a rescue mission to a Federation colony, supposedly endangered by deadly (and fictional) Berthold radiation.
60	* SpaceAmish: No motorized vehicles. Either WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture, or the spores make you forget how to drive. No animals either-- since the spores couldn't affect them, they all died from the radiation.
61	* StepfordSmiler: Everyone under spore influence, but especially Uhura, who cheerfully tells Kirk how she disabled the long-range communications systems.
62	* TeachHimAnger: Kirk has to anger up Spock (who's on the feelgood spores) and then let himself get smacked around by an enraged Vulcan until he gets it all out of his system.
63	* ThatCloudLooksLike: Spock (under the influence of spores) and Leila go cloud gazing. Spock remarks that one looks very much like a dragon (in this universe, dragons are real, but all live on the planet Berengaria Seven). Unfortunately, to see what this scene looks like, you have to get the DVD!
64	* ThatsAnOrder: Unfortunately for Kirk, Uhura is too stoned on spores to open a channel to anyplace but the planet's surface. She couldn't if she tried, as she short-circuited long-range communications.
65	* TheUnpronounceable: Leila asks Spock if he has another name. He tells her she couldn't pronounce it. Of course, you'll have to TakeOurWordForIt.
66	** Spockanalia, a late-60's fanzine, established Spock's last name as "Xtmprszntwlfd." Unpronounceable, indeed.
67	** Another fanzine suggested "Spock" is his last name, and his first name is something embarrassing, like "Harold."
68	** Some expanded universe materials have said that "Spock" is his given name and his family name (which comes first) is "Sch'n T'gai". Pretty difficult to pronounce.
69	* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'', in which alien plants make people start acting out of character.

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